Cookies
are small bits of text that are downloaded to your
browser as you surf the web. Their purpose is to carry
bits of useful information about your interaction with
the website that sets them.

Contrary to a common belief, cookies do not contain
software programs, so cannot install anything on a
computer. Cookies generally do not contain any
information that would identify a person. Usually they
contain a string of text or "unique identifier". This
acts like a label. When a website sees the string of
text it set in a cookie, it knows the browser is one
it has seen before.

If you
use a different computer, open a new web browser or
delete your cookies, the website will treat you as if
you have arrived for the first time (and a new cookie
will be set).

What
are cookies used for?

Cookies
can be used for a variety of reasons:

to
help remember your preferences on a site
(whether you read the oldest or newest comments
first; the volume on the video player)

to
understand how you and other users are using the
site
(to tell what the most popular news story of the day
is; to record how you responded to a new design or
version of the site)

for
logging in to a service or to make sure you're
logged in securely
(these cookies may contain information such as your
email address and your name – the information you
gave when you signed up. The website you signed up
to is the only site that can access this
information.)

The
cookies that appear to cause the most controversy,
however, are for managing the advertising you see on a
website.

This is
particularly the case when websites set a cookie from
a separate advertising delivery company. This cookie
can record when and where you saw an advert, where in
the world you might have been when it happened and
whether you clicked on it.

The
cookie will send this information to the cookie owner,
who records this data and uses it to make sure you
don't see the same advert too many times.

If
websites choose to pool some of the information this
type of cookie collects as part of an ad network, the
systems used by advertising delivery companies can
create "segments" of browsers that display similar
behaviours.

They
will use this to try to draw conclusions about what
the people behind the browsers might be interested in:
"basketball lovers" or "hair product enthusiasts" or
"adventure holiday takers", for example. Cookies that
do this are known as third-party advertising cookies.

Over
time they learn which types of adverts are most
effective to these groups and can sell this service to
advertisers.

What
cookies are used our site?

Source

Name

Duration

Description

StatCounter
analytical cookie

is_unique

5 - years

It is used to determine the analysis of web
traffic or. Statistics of visits. The cookie
not contains presonal data of the visitor.